FDA's OK May Spark 'Clone-Free' Labels - washingtonpost.com
one step closer to have cloned meat at a grocery store.
one step closer to have cloned meat at a grocery store.
stinemates said:I don't understand what the benefit would be to selling cloned cattle beef over regular cattle beef..?
Am I missing something?
licia said:I would like to know if the meat is from a cloned animal or not. I think there is a period of time for questions and argument and believe that to be best.
VeraBlue said:more food for more people...Supply and demand.
I'm not very smart but I think the idea is that maybe someday instead of a cow producing one calf in a year, a whole herd might be cloned from it in the same time.stinemates said:I still don't get it... you still have to raise them from babies.. or are you implying that because they can clone abnormally large cows, it will increase the supply?
I am not trying to poke holes, just trying to understand..
If I understand it correctly, it would take a Bull to produce a herd of cloned calves which could be turned into steers. Unfortunately for the bull, the process would not be nearly as enjoyable.Constance said:I think you've got the right idea, Skillit. If that's the case, it could actually end up being a lot better for our environment. Cattle take an enormous amount of land to raise, and if one cow could deliver a whole herd of steers instead of just one, it would save considerable pasture land.
As long as we don't start eating Soylent Green.
Constance said:I think you've got the right idea, Skillit. If that's the case, it could actually end up being a lot better for our environment. Cattle take an enormous amount of land to raise, and if one cow could deliver a whole herd of steers instead of just one, it would save considerable pasture land.
As long as we don't start eating Soylent Green.
No, because you wouldn't be pasturing the mother cows. Remember that this is not yet possible.amber said:Assuming one cow produces many, wouldnt that take up more pasture?
Nor am I. Fortunately, it is not yet an option.amber said:On to the question at hand, I don't see any difference between cloned cows, but for some reason I wouldnt want to buy one just yet, not sure why though.
Of course you are right Andy. If I intimated that the process involved the sacrifice of the cell donor, I apologize for the confusion.Andy M. said:You don't need a steer. You simply take any cell from the animal to be cloned and process it from there.
As the self appointed spokesman of the dumbest among us; Say what?boufa06 said:Reading the linked article and the subsequent posts, two names stand out above all the din, ViaGen and Cyagra. For now they are my heroes. True benefactors of mankind! At significant cost to them, they work tirelessly to produce more and better meat for us let alone the extra milk! What a fine example of corporate altruism (an oxymoron perhaps?)! As for any health concerns, 678 pages of FDA outpouring (based on data contributed so unselfishly by our hero companies) should be enough to silence (or at least confuse) even the most vociferous of the unbelievers. Although I am not keeping track of such statistics, I am nonetheless certain that the pages of the document essentially approving cloned meat for human consumption far exceed in number as well as in weight those of the document approving the use of thalidomide (another unselfish gift to mankind) a little while back. There only remains one final step, i.e., to ram the use of cloned meat down the throat of the rest of the world so that they can all benefit accordingly. It is heart-warming to see that the FDA is cognizant of such need by declaring themselves against the use of labels that reveal the cloned or clone-free origin of marketed meat. With 2007 just around the corner, I wonder why it feels a bit like 1984.